I want everyone to go out to your car, pull out the wrinkled road map of the US you haven’t looked at in at least 5 years (no cheating, I want you to have something tangible in front of you, not just Google maps), find Indiana, and then look directly to the west.
The state directly to the west is a little state called Illinois. If you’re a Purdue football fan, you haven’t heard much about that state in recent years, at least in terms of recruiting, but a long time ago, in what seems like a different lifetime, Purdue actually pulled star players out of Illinois on a regular basis. The Illinois to Purdue pipeline, much like the Purdue to Victory pipeline, has all but run dry in recent years,…
